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- J.J. FORD, judge, Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court† (source)
- There's no database that spits out this information, no central source that tells you which judges are nice, which judges send people to the Supreme Court, and which type of work—trial or appellate—you want to do.† (source)
- I piled up courses on constitutional law, litigation, appellate procedure, federal courts, and collateral remedies.† (source)
- He hooted that Lawton had been a failure as a lawyer, that he had never tried a felony case, never had appellate experience, never argued a case before the Georgia Supreme Court, and that as a direct result of his laziness and incompetence he had exposed a law firm he had worked for to a malpractice suit.† (source)
- An appellate court might decide that de Wet had been too lenient and that we deserved the death penalty.† (source)
- His career had been spectacularly successful, and he'd advanced from wealthy courtroom lawyer to distinguished appellate judge.† (source)
- As I turned the corner, I saw the AAG from the appellate division, Gordon Greenleaf, already waiting.† (source)
- But that doesn't help us in appellate court.† (source)
- I believe the appellate jurisdiction, as defined by the Constitution, is proper.† (source)
- But I knew it would, at the very least, set up an extremely interesting appellate issue.† (source)
- The appellate courts in America are directly below the Supreme Court.
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- The appellate courts affirmed his conviction and sentence.† (source)
- Judge: family court, state supreme court, appellate division.† (source)
- Afterwards, it divides the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court into original and appellate.† (source)
- This appellate jurisdiction does not abolish the trial by jury.† (source)
- New York State uses a technical meaning to the term "appellate."† (source)
- The propriety of this appellate jurisdiction has been rarely questioned.† (source)
- The Supreme Court will have appellate jurisdiction both as to law and fact.† (source)
- The appellate jurisdiction should sometimes extend in the broadest sense to matters of fact.† (source)
- Therefore, the word "appellate" will not have the same meaning in New England as in New York.† (source)
- Whether the lower courts' authority is original or appellate or both is not defined.† (source)
- Appellate has two p's and two I's.† (source)
- We kept getting very close decisions from appellate courts denying relief, and Mr. Hinton remained on death row facing execution.† (source)
- I had to go back to an appellate court in California and argue to get that sentence replaced with a reasonable sentence.† (source)
- Given our success in other death penalty cases, he must have feared the very real possibility of the appellate court's overturning Walter's conviction.† (source)
- The motions are almost never granted, but every now and then an appellate court finds that the atmosphere in a county had been so prejudicial that the trial should have been moved.† (source)
- In a few years, some of the appellate court judges would be attacked and replaced in partisan judicial elections by candidates who complained about the court's rulings in death penalty cases.† (source)
- I had advised Walter and his family that we would likely need to go to an appellate court for any real chance of relief, despite how positive everyone thought the hearing had been.† (source)
- In a two-week period, I had been in California visiting Antonio Nunez at a remote prison in the middle of the state before arguing his case in an appellate court there, while also actively trying to win relief for Trina Garnett in Pennsylvania and Ian Manuel in Florida.† (source)
- I called Tommy Chapman and told him that I intended to file a motion to dismiss all charges against Walter in light of the appellate court's ruling, and I hoped he would consider joining the motion or at least not oppose it.† (source)
- At the oral argument months earlier, I'd been hopeful as I walked into the imposing Alabama Judicial Building and stood in the grand appellate courtroom that was formerly a Scottish Rite Freemasonry temple.† (source)
- I decided I would call the attorney general's office and see if they would concede legal error in the pending appeal, which would ensure relief at the appellate court and perhaps expedite Walter's release.† (source)
- Despite numerous potentially meritorious grounds for appeal, Joe's appointed appellate counsel filed an Anders brief—indicating his belief that there were no legitimate grounds for appeal and no credible basis to complain about the conviction or sentence—and was permitted to withdraw from representing Joe.† (source)
- He had affirmed death sentences from his seat on an appellate bench, and that had not been easy—even for men who had richly deserved their fates.† (source)
- As an appellate court judge he had never had to look a defendant in the eye; he'd just reviewed the law in a detached way.† (source)
- The Supreme Court will have only appellate jurisdiction "with such exceptions and under such regulations as the Congress shall make."† (source)
- Vide Number 81 refutes the idea that it is abolished by the appellate jurisdiction in matters of fact being vested in the Supreme Court.† (source)
- The Constitution gives the Supreme Court appellate jurisdiction in all the cases of federal jurisdiction where it doesn't have original jurisdiction.† (source)
- The appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court (they may have argued) will extend to causes determined in different modes.† (source)
- They believe that "appellate jurisdiction" implies that trial by jury will be replaced by the civil-law mode of trial that is used in the New York courts of admiralty, probate, and chancery.† (source)
- Appellate Court May Review Facts† (source)
- Therefore, the expression, "appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact," does not necessarily mean that the Supreme Court will reexamine facts decided by juries in the inferior courts.† (source)
- The Supreme Court will have an appellate jurisdiction both as to law and fact in all the cases referred to them, both subject to any exceptions and regulations that may be thought advisable.† (source)
- If the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court were confined to appeals from inferior federal courts instead of allowing their extension to the State courts, it would abridge the latitude of the terms in subversion of the intent, contrary to every sound rule of interpretation.† (source)
- They told him what would be the next turn in the Lingle case, or what the public-auction schedule would be, or about Appellate Court decisions before they were in print, or where there were hot goods, from furs to school supplies; so he had a line on Lollie from the beginning to the end.† (source)
- If he were wrong, there was the Appellate Division to which the defense could resort.† (source)
- In all the other Cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.† (source)
- In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.† (source)
- Whether their authority shall be original or appellate, or both, is not declared.† (source)
- One branch of the legislative department forms also a great constitutional council to the executive chief, as, on another hand, it is the sole depositary of judicial power in cases of impeachment, and is invested with the supreme appellate jurisdiction in all other cases.† (source)
- It is therefore necessary that the appellate jurisdiction should, in certain cases, extend in the broadest sense to matters of fact.† (source)
- It afterwards divides the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court into original and appellate, but gives no definition of that of the subordinate courts.† (source)
- It would diminish the motives to the multiplication of federal courts, and would admit of arrangements calculated to contract the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.† (source)
- 3 Vide No. 81, in which the supposition of its being abolished by the appellate jurisdiction in matters of fact being vested in the Supreme Court, is examined and refuted.† (source)
- And well satisfied as I am of the propriety of the appellate jurisdiction, in the several classes of causes to which it is extended by the plan of the convention.† (source)
- A technical sense has been affixed to the term "appellate," which, in our law parlance, is commonly used in reference to appeals in the course of the civil law.† (source)
- The propriety of this appellate jurisdiction has been scarcely called in question in regard to matters of law; but the clamors have been loud against it as applied to matters of fact.† (source)
- In all other cases of federal cognizance, the original jurisdiction would appertain to the inferior tribunals; and the Supreme Court would have nothing more than an appellate jurisdiction, "with such EXCEPTIONS and under such REGULATIONS as the Congress shall make."† (source)
- The Constitution in direct terms gives an appellate jurisdiction to the Supreme Court in all the enumerated cases of federal cognizance in which it is not to have an original one, without a single expression to confine its operation to the inferior federal courts.† (source)
- I contend, therefore, on this ground, that the expressions, "appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact," do not necessarily imply a re-examination in the Supreme Court of facts decided by juries in the inferior courts.† (source)
- The appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court (it may have been argued) will extend to causes determinable in different modes, some in the course of the COMMON LAW, others in the course of the CIVIL LAW.† (source)
- The word "appellate," therefore, will not be understood in the same sense in New England as in New York, which shows the impropriety of a technical interpretation derived from the jurisprudence of any particular State.† (source)
- To avoid all inconveniencies, it will be safest to declare generally, that the Supreme Court shall possess appellate jurisdiction both as to law and FACT, and that this jurisdiction shall be subject to such EXCEPTIONS and regulations as the national legislature may prescribe.† (source)
- …the national judicature; that in the partition of this authority a very small portion of original jurisdiction has been preserved to the Supreme Court, and the rest consigned to the subordinate tribunals; that the Supreme Court will possess an appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, in all the cases referred to them, both subject to any EXCEPTIONS and REGULATIONS which may be thought advisable; that this appellate jurisdiction does, in no case, ABOLISH the trial by jury; and…† (source)
- To confine, therefore, the general expressions giving appellate jurisdiction to the Supreme Court, to appeals from the subordinate federal courts, instead of allowing their extension to the State courts, would be to abridge the latitude of the terms, in subversion of the intent, contrary to every sound rule of interpretation.† (source)
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